Re: any way to recover root password on 5.2
From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 05/06/04
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Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 02:47:12 -0700 To: Gregory Edigarov <greg@profi.kharkov.ua>
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:28:18PM +0300, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I forgot root pasword on my just installed server.
> I've tryed to recover it by going to single user, then doing
> mount -a; passwd root, but no success. It says "entropy device
> blocking. Dance fandago on keyboard to unlock".
> what can I do?
Type random stuff on the keyboard to generate entropy.
Kris
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